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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same - Lemmy.World

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I often typed “hipster coffee shop” into the search bar as a shorthand because Yelp’s search algorithm always knew exactly what I meant by the phrase. It was the kind of cafe that someone like me – a western, twentysomething (at the time), internet-brained millennial acutely conscious of their own taste – would want to go to.
Yeah. The "algorithm" is to blame.
Why every x looks the same
City
Car
Advertisement
Interface
etc.
- Why Every Article is the Same
  
  ChatGPT
- Dang, I was interested in the interface article but it reads like a high school essay.
  The best reason, personally is because we collectively evolved our perception of good design as being informative, friendly and hospitable.
  
  Sorry, I just knew I'd seen this pattern a lot, so I searched and dropped in the first examples I found
It's just trends/fashion, I don't get why algorithms are to blame? I read the whole long ass article but I don't really find a compelling argument. It's just how trends work. The algorithms of now speed it up, but it's no different from anything in this connected day and age; I used to only hear of new PC announcements in a month (when the next issue of PC Magazine hit my mail box), now I can get it within the minute of announcement.
Waiting to check out this hip place https://maps.app.goo.gl/UbitojpEabQdVzxDA

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